"An 18th-century chemical laboratory in Paris, showing instruments, furnaces, chemical vessels, and chemists, c. 1760. Alchemical symbols are arranged below in a kind of proto-periodic table. From 'Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences' by Diderot."


https://tinyurl.com/muz699jv

An Alchemical Oracle from Ancient Egypt

"The Book of Doors presents an entirely new divination system that accesses the ancient knowledge of Egypt, enabling you to unlock your intuitive abilities and call upon the energy of the Egyptian deities, whose powers transform both matter and spirit"

https://www.deslegte.com/the-book-of-doo...k-4694922/

" In medieval Europe, alchemists occasionally referenced hemlock extracts for muscle spasms, though the line between remedy and poison was perilously thin. Curiously, despite its toxicity, some 16th-century Renaissance herbalists experimented with tiny seed infusions for tremor relief, believing that highly diluted doses might calm the nervous system. Such uses were often recorded in compendia like John Gerard’s "Herball" (1597), though warnings against oral ingestion were prominent. In Ayurvedic manuscripts from the 17th century, scribes in Bengal noted that Conium maculatum was not part of mainstream “Dhanvantari samhita” tradition but occasionally referenced in peripheral texts as a herb of last resort for severe rheumatic pain—used only after lengthy detox processes."

https://ask-ayurveda.com/hi/wiki/article...-maculatum

"The alchemists of the Middle Ages searched for gold—but also for healing, purity, and the secret spark of life itself. Their laboratories glowed with strange colors, their notebooks mixed prayers with recipes, and every experiment blurred the line between faith and discovery."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LJtRQZI7M

"A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy. The small Sabine village of Rivodutri was largely destroyed by the earthquake of 1948, but one unusual architectural element survived, known locally as the Alchemical Door"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/alch...-rivodutri

Long-Lost Baroque Painting Revealed as Rare Alchemical Masterpiece

The Fedele Fischetti work was rediscovered by art dealer Christopher Bishop at a London auction.

"Contemporary art’s love affair with the occult has canonical precedent—and a newly resurfaced oil painting by Neapolitan artist Fedele Fischetti is proof. New York-based art dealer Christopher Bishop discovered Fischetti’s The Triumph of Night (ca. 1765) three years ago. After an extended period of study, he’s debuting the painting in an exhibition titled “Alchemy and the Painter” at his Upper East Side gallery through December 12."

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fedele...op-2706041

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedele_Fischetti

   

Soma siddhas and alchemical enlightenment: psychedelic mushrooms in Buddhist tradition
S Hajicek-Dobberstein
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1995•Elsevier


"In the legendary biographies of some Buddhist adepts from the 2nd- and 9th-centuries there are some clues which can be interpreted to reveal that the adepts were consuming psychedelic Amanita muscaria, ‘fly agaric’, mushrooms to achieve enlightenment. This secret ingredient in the alchemical elixir they used to attain ‘realization’ was, of course, unnamed, in keeping with their vows to maintain the secrecy of their practices. Its identity was concealed behind a set of symbols, some of which appeared in the Soma symbol system of the Rg Veda, some other symbols possibly passed down from a time of earlier shamanic use of the mushroom in the forests of Northern Eurasia, and some symbols that may be unique to these Buddhist legends. The congruity of these sets of symbols from Northern and Southern Asian traditions will be shown to be reflected in the Germanic tradition in some characteristics of the Oldest God, Odin."

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&q=Ha...%281995%29.

"This is not a simple history course, but an immersion in the art that unites science and mysticism. You will learn to decipher the arcane language of alchemical symbolism: the union of King and Queen, the dance of Sulfur and Mercury. From ancient alchemical laboratories to the practice of Spagyric Medicine, you will discover how the Adepts sought not only to transmute vile into gold (Fornello Alchemy), but also to distill the very essence of life for an elixir of long life. At the end of the journey, you will understand how the search for the Philosopher's Stone is, in fact, the most powerful metaphor for human enlightenment and spiritual transformation. Your crucible awaits you."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1XoN5AL9c

''SAPO STARKEI'' for one.
This is most likely ''Starkey'', that is to say George Starkey (1628–1665),
for a chemical-pharmaceutical preparation attributed to George Starkey's recipe,
used as a medicinal or alchemical soap.

''PILULAE BECKERI'' for the other.
This phylactery refers to pills composed according to the recipe of Dr. Johann Jacob Becher (or Beeker), 1635–1682,
based on purgative or mercurial substances, intended to “cleanse the body of bad humors”
according to the galenic and chemical medicine of the time. 


https://www.proantic.com/en/1642114-east...boxes.html

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"Imagine an ancient Egyptian priest grinding malachite — a bright green copper-based mineral — into a paste. He believed this paste would link the wearer to the gods. On the other side of the Silk Road, a Chinese alchemist prepared cinnabar. This alchemist thought cinnabar held the key to eternal life. In India’s Ayurvedic temples, healers prescribed bhasmas — calcinated mineral mixtures — to restore the body’s basic energies."

https://www.wbcil.com/blog/mineral-alche...formation/